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291 FILMOGRAPHY For more information on the casts (here people who play dance artists of some kind are favored) and production personnel of these films, see the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com). An American in Paris (MGM, 1951). Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch. Director Vincente Minnelli. Writer Alan Jay Lerner. Choreography Gene Kelly. The Ballet Girl (William A. Brady Picture Plays, 1916). Alice Brady, Holbrook Blinn, Robert Frazer. Director George Irving. Based on Compton Mackenzie’s novel Carnival. The Band Wagon (MGM, 1953). Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Jack Buchanan, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, James Mitchell. Director Vincente Minnelli. Writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Choreography Michael Kidd. Bathing Beauty (MGM, 19). Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Director George Sidney. Writers Dorothy Kingsley, Allen Boretz, Frank Waldman. Choreography Robert Alton and Jack Donohue; water ballet John Murray Anderson. Billy Elliot (Arts Council of England/BBC Films/Studio Canal/Tiger Aspect Pictures/WT2 Productions/Working Title Films, 2000). Jamie Bell, Jamie Draven, Gary Lewis, Julie Walters. Director Stephen Daldry. Writer Lee Hall. Choreography Peter Darling . Swan Lake courtesy of Matthew Bourne. Black Tights (Talma Films, 1962 [U.S.]). Zizi Jeanmaire, Cyd Charisse, Roland Petit, Moira Shearer, Dirk Sanders, George Reich, Josette Clavier, Hans von Manen. Director Terence Young. Choreography Roland Petit. Bobbie of the Ballet (Universal, 1916). Louise Lovely, Lon Chaney. Director Joseph De Grasse. Writers Grant Carpenter and Ida May Park. Center Stage (Columbia, 2000). Amanda Schull, Zoe Saldana, Susan May Pratt, Peter Gallagher, Donna Murphy, Ethan Stiefel, Sascha Radetsky, Julie Kent, Ilya Kulik. Director Nicholas Hytner. Writer Carol Heikkinen. Choreography Susan Stroman. Additional choreography Christopher Wheeldon. The Company (Sony Pictures Classics, 2003). Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Marilyn Dodds Frank, Deborah Dawn, Suzanne L. Prisco, Domingo Rubio, Maia Wilkins, Sam Franke, Trinity Hamilton, Julianne Kepley, Lar Lubovitch, Robert Desrosiers, Charthel Arthur, Cameron Basden, Mark Goldweber, Pierre Lockett, Adam Sklute (and other members of the Joffrey Ballet). Director Robert Altman. Writers Neve Campbell and Barbara Turner (story); Barbara Turner 292 FILMOGR A PH Y (screenplay). Choreography Lar Lubovitch, Robert Desrosiers, Gerald Arpino, Robert Joffrey. Dance, Girl, Dance (RKO-Radio, 190). Maureen O’Hara, Lucille Ball, Marie Ouspenskaya, Ralph Bellamy, Katherine Alexander, Louis Hayward, Virginia Field, Vivian Fay. Director Dorothy Arzner. Writers Vicki Baum (story), Frank Davis, Tess Slesinger. Choreography Ernst Matray. Dance Little Lady (Alderdale, 1955). Mai Zetterling, Terence Morgan, Guy Rolfe, Mandy Miller. Director Val Guest. Story R. Howard Alexander, Alfred Dunning, Val Guest, Doreen Montgomery. Dancers [uncredited] Harold Lang, Maryon Lane, David Poole. Dance Pretty Lady (British Instructional Films, 1932). Ann Casson, Carl Harbord, Michael Hogan, Norman Claridge, Marie Rambert’s Dancers. Director Anthony Asquith. Writing credits Anthony Asquith and Compton Mackenzie. Choreography Frederick Ashton. Dancers (Golan-Globus and Hera/Baryshnikov Productions, 1987). Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alessandra Ferri, Leslie Browne, Tommy Rall, Lynn Seymour, Victor Barbee, Julie Kent. Director Herbert Ross. Writer Sarah Kernochan. Ballet sequences Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Dancer’s Peril (World, 1917). Alice Brady, Philip Hahn, Harry Benham, Montagu Love, Alexis Kosloff. Director Travers Vale. Story Harriet Morris. Dances staged Alexis Kosloff. The Dancing Masters (Twentieth Century–Fox, 193). Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Trudy Marshall, Robert Bailey, Margaret Dumont. Director Malcolm [Mal] St. Clair. Writers George Bricker (story); W. Scott Darling (screenplay). Days of Glory (RKO-Radio, 19). Gregory Peck, Tamara Toumanova, Alan Reed, Maria Palmer, Lowell Gilmore, Hugo Haas, Glenn Vernon, Dena Penn. Director Jacques Tourneur. Writers Melchior Lengyel (story); Casey Robinson (screenplay). The Dumb Girl of Portici (Universal, 1916). Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Wadsworth Harris , Douglas Gerrard. Directors Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber. Writer Lois Weber (opera Germain Delavigna and Eugène Scribe). Fame (MGM, 1980). Irene Cara, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Paul McCrane, Gene Anthony Ray, Maureen Teefy, Anne Meara, Debbie Allen. Director Alan Parker. Writer Christopher Gore. Choreography Louis Falco. Flashdance (Paramount, 1983). Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Marine Jahan [uncredited], Sharon Shapiro [uncredited], Crazy Legs [uncredited]. Director Adrian Lyne. Writers Tom Hedley (story); Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas (screenplay ). Choreography Jeffrey Hornaday. Gaby (MGM, 1956). Leslie Caron, John Kerr, Taina Elg, Cedric Hardwicke, Margalo Gillmore . Director Curtis Bernhardt. Writers Robert E. Sherwood (play); S. N. Behrman, Paul. H. Rameau, George Froeschel (earlier screenplay); Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Charles Lederer (screenplay). Choreography Michael [Michel] Panaieff. Gold Diggers in Paris (Warner Bros., 1938). Rudy Vallee, Rosemary Lane, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Curt Bois. Director Ray Enright. Writers Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay , Maurice Leo (story); Earl Baldwin and Warren Duff (screenplay). Musical numbers Busby Berkeley...